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Amazing twist to make new series most outrageous EVER

BIG Brother bosses have come up with a bizarre plan to save the show.

In a bid to make this summer’s BB9 the wackiest yet, they are turning to some unexpected faces from the show’s past.

Bosses plan to use Golden Ticket winners from 2006 in this year’s show after weeks of dull auditions.

Applicants for this summer’s series have been so disappointing that desperate producers have had to beg the BB7 wannabes to reapply.

One ticket holder said: “They were beating down my door. I couldn’t believe it.”

Golden Tickets were given away in special packs of KitKats two years ago in a bid to find a random member of the public to enter the house.

The twist saw housewife Susie Verrico, 44, selected in a live lottery.

Now, nearly two years later, several of the other 34 ticket holders have been approached by producers.

A BB source said: “It’s a sign of how bad it’s got.

“There was a list of people drawn up at the end of the Golden Ticket promotion that producers put to one side for a rainy day.

“People suspected they would be used in BB8 – but that was too soon.

“But this year the auditions were the quietest we can remember so the list has come back into play.

“It’s a desperate last throw of the dice.

“This summer’s series has to be good and the bosses couldn’t risk only using the people who applied.”

Some Golden Ticket hopefuls were even contacted before the auditions started so producers could find candidates to “spark off them”, the source said.

He added: “For instance, if they had in mind someone who hates fat, smelly people, bosses would try to find the fattest, smelliest applicant to go in alongside them.”

Yesterday one Golden Ticket holder revealed: “They contacted me out of the blue before Christmas.

“I went down and had an interview – I still don’t know if I’ve been selected or not.

“It came as a shock to be approached. I always thought the housemates had to apply themselves.”

Show sources said several Golden Ticket holders have already made it onto the shortlist.

The 24 men and 11 women who found Golden Tickets included 26-year-old model Danielle James, from Liverpool, and professional gambler Ed Murray, 30, from London. BB9 has been hit by tiny turnouts at auditions after E4’s Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack flopped.

Last month we told how only 20 people queued for an audition in Newcastle and interviews in Scotland were branded “the quietest ever”.

This is not the first time former applicants have been used to pep up the show.

Chantelle Houghton, 24, won her place in Celebrity Big Brother after applying for BB6 while 27-year-old Sezer Yurtseven and Imogen Thomas, 25, had appeared as guinea pigs for previous series before they were selected for BB7.

Last night a BB spokeswoman said: “Big Brother is always about looking forward and getting the best contestants for the show.”

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